Up in arms: SAG-AFTRA actors strike against the Hollywood studios as they join the Writers Guild of America on the picket line in Los Angeles. SAG-AFTRA is Hollywood’s largest union which represents actors and other media professionals. — Reuters
The SAG-AFTRA actors’ strike shows Los Angeles is leading the US labour movement. But how did it get there, when for most of the last century the City of Angels was the ‘open shop capital of America’?
SOUTHERN California unions and the working people they represent have become the vanguard of the American labour movement. About half of the big strikes in the United States this year have taken place in California, with the most consequential centered in Los Angeles – now including the actors’ strike announced by The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) on July 13.
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The picket line
Striking writers and SAG-AFTRA supporters in front of Paramount studios. Writers Guild of America members have gotten support on the picket line from SAG-AFTRA, which announced on July 13 that it was also going on strike. — Los Angeles Times/TNS
A member of the SAG-AFTRA bargaining committee steps out the bus dedicated to guild members travelling to picket lines to join fellow members and the Writers Guild of America protesters outside Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. — AFP
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher (right) with national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland joining the Writers Guild members at a picket line outside of Warner Bros studio in Burbank on Friday. — AFP
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA national executive director and chief negotiator join the Writers Guild of America in the first joint walkout against Hollywood studios since 1960. — Reuters
Members of the actors SAG-AFTRA union walk a picket line with screenwriters outside of Netflix's New York office on the first day of the actors' strike on Friday. — AFP
